Male Torso
Harappa, Indus Valle 2400-2000 B.C.E. Limestone.
Buddhists four noble truths
1. Existence is full of suffering 2. The cause of suffering is desire 3. To eliminate suffering, one must eliminate desire. 4.To eliminate deisre, one must follow the moral code of the eightfold path, which regulates speech, thought, and action.
Great Stupa
Sanchi India 10 B.C.E.-15 C.E.
Stupa
An excellent example of the early Indian Buddhist art that is a domelike structure whice evolved from burial mounds.
Bodhisattva
N.W. Pakistan, Gandhara region. Late 2nd century C.E. Kushana period. Gray schist.
Bodhisattva
is a person who is on the point of achieving enlightenment, but delays it in order to remain on earth and teach others.
Standing Buddha
5th century red sandstone.
Beautiful Bodhisattva padmapani
Detail of a fresco from cave 1. Ajanta, India 600-650
Garba Griha
Sacred room where an image of the god is kept.
Kandarya Mahadeva Temple
Khjuraho, India 10th-11th centuries
Nataraja, Shiva as king of Dance
South India Chola Period, 11th century bronze.
The Approach of Krishna
1660-1670. page from Rasamanjari. India, Pahari, Basohli. Color, Silver and beetle wings on paper.
Borobudur
800 Java Indonesia
Angkor Wat
1120-1150 was originally surrounded by moats as if to remind everyon that management of water was the source of wealth
Ritual Vessel
China. 12th Century B.C.E. cast bronze
Taotie mask
Central face
Terra cotta warriors
Pit No1, Museum of the first emperor of Qin. Shaanxi province, China. Qin Dynasty. 210 B.C.E.
Stone Tomb Relief. Rubbing
Wu Family Shrine, Shandong Province, China. 2nd Century C.E.
Mirror with Xiwangmu
China. Early Six Dynasties Period 317-581.
Detail of Autobiography
Huai-su. Tang dynasty 7th-10th centuries ink on paper
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Fan Kuan. Song dynasty. Early 11th century. Hanging scroll, ink on silk.
Watching the Deer by a pine shaded stream
Ma Yuan. Southern song dynasty. Album leaf, ink on silk.
Literati painting
Created by artists and poets who fluanted their amature status
Album Leaf from Manual of ink bamboo
1350 Wu Chen Ink on paper
Whispering pines on a mountain path
Tang Yin. Ming Dynasty. 1516 Hanging Scroll.
Procelain Plate
Mid 14th century chinese late yuan dynasty. painted in underglaze blue.
Wine Pitcher
Koryo dynasty. Korea mid 12th century gourd-shaped Celadon bottle inlaid with peony design. Stone ware with celadone glaze and inlaid white and black slip
Avatamaska Sutra
Vol. 12, 13th-14th Century. Korea, Goryeo Period. Folded book with illustrated frotispiece. Gold and silver text on paper
Cicada on a banana leaf
Bada Shanren. Qing dynasty 1688-1689. Leaf F from an album Flowers and birds. Ink on paper.
Main Shrine
Ise Japan. 685 rebuilt every twenty years
Horyuji Temple
Nara Japan 690
Detail of Muchaku
unkei. 1208. Wood
Night attack on the sanjo palace from the Heiji monogatari emaki
japan. second half of 13th century kamakura period. handscroll, ink and colors on paper
Haboku, splashed ink landscape
Sesshu Toyo. 1400s early 1500s Hanging scroll, ink on paper, painting
Everyday world
is depicted in Japanese Ukiyo-e prints like kitagawa utamaros Reflected beauty
Reflected beauty, seven beauties applying make up
Kitagawa utamaro. 1790 woodblock print
Daoism
Those who practice this ancient Chinese religion, Believe in Harmony in nature and an Inner life force
Literati
This group of artists and thinkers devoted themselves to art and poetry.
Confucianism
According to this chinese philosophy. ancestors live eternally and inflence worldly affairs from the spiritual realm
Buddhism
this religion which originated in india.